They didn't have the eye colour wrong. She just hadn't looked at the results properly. Upon closer inspection it said that her type mostly has brown eyes but that a small percentage has green eyes.

Quite natural as there are so few green eye people in the world. To write a test paper that person has (only) green eyes; that would be quite a lottery/gambling for any DNA tester. Just 2% of all humans have green eyes (green eyes are 5 times more rare than blue eyes).

Ugh, my face is going to be flatter than a sheet of paper after all the facepalms that article triggered.

I have noticed that when an article is published around the premise that some scientist or other says "Scientifically, there are no such things as separate human races", they are typically misdefining the term "race" as a synonym for "species".

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All of the genetic diversity in humans comprises just 0.1 percent of the human genome.

When one considers the vastness of the genome, that 0.1 is a pretty big number in itself. Considering how many genes we also share with mosquitoes, daffodils, and what have you.

“White supremacists are kind of the tip of the iceberg when it comes to beliefs about race.”

When it comes to "beliefs about race", perhaps we should be most concerned with those peddling the belief that race is either non-existent or somehow irrelevant. Science and reality do not agree with their political agenda.

My father had the ancestry.com DNA test done and turns out I'm 92% Scandinavian, 6% Western European (grand parents immigrated from Germany in 1947), and 2% has a question mark so I guess I'm 2% Martian lol. Very cool service

I'm curious to know if Finns have more Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA than other nationalities. I have not been able to find any information about this on the Internet yet.

The Neanderthal genome which DNA companies compare people against was from the Altai mountains in Central Asia. We would then expect Y haplogroup N1c populations to be genetically closer than Y haplogroup I populations. Same story for Denisovan ancestry.

We need the genome of a Neanderthal from Western Europe to make sure there wasn't a separate interbreeding event in Europe.

The Neanderthal genome DNA companies compare people against was from the Altai mountains in Central Asia. We would then expect Y haplogroup N1c populations to be genetically closer than Y haplogroup I populations. Same story for Denisovan ancestry.

We need the genome of a Neanderthal from Western Europe to make sure there wasn't a separate interbreeding event in Europe.

Some Asian populations have highest % of Neanderthal genes, not Europeans (incl. Finns). What comes to Europeans....Finns might be one of those ethnics which have those more than averages...but differencies are so small that they do not influence at all. And in the end...those genes which have really survived to present days...they just have made us ''better'' people (being benefitical).

What comes to Denisovan...I have not hear that any Europeans have those genes. But for example Sherpa peope (Himalay) might have those...and that might be one secret of them...why they can operate in high mountains so easily (in lower oxigen contain air).